August 2025, Vol 315, No 8000
Top news stories
UK’s biggest online pharmacy freezes Mounjaro price amid reports of ‘stockpiling’
MHRA approves UK’s first immunotherapy for type 1 diabetes
Pharmacists could be given right to amend prescriptions to tackle medicines shortages
Nine in ten pharmacies report increase in shoplifting over past year
Features
The Dash review and its impact on the future of patient advocacy
Designed by AI: the future of antibody drugs
NHS ten-year plan: what role will pharmacies play in neighbourhood health teams?
Pharmacy First: are insufficient GP referrals hindering its success?
Opinion
PJ view: Neighbourhood health will not work without stronger primary care relationships
Tackling systemic barriers through pharmacy practice research
Why strong pharmacy leadership is essential for the NHS’s next decade
Reviewing our clinical services and implementing job planning to get the best out of our pharmacy team
Prescriptions and ponchos: pharmacy volunteers in the field
Bill Scott OBE (1949–2025)
Learning & CPD
Polypharmacy and deprescribing in older people
Frailty and the patient journey
Case-based learning: frailty
Best practice for consultations with patients with additional speech and hearing needs
Parenteral nutrition: indications and management
Urinary tract infection in adults: diagnosis, management and prevention
Rheumatoid arthritis: management
Upskilling pharmacy teams to make migraine care routine practice
Supported content
Benefits of patient and public involvement in research
Your RPS
RPS chief executive to step down after royal college transition
Pharmacists reduce wait for mental health medication reviews by average of five weeks
Prescribing self-assessment and peer review increases pharmacists’ confidence in prescribing, NHS Lothian pilot finds
